The Distant Scene is another interesting collection of stories from the Worcestershire countryside. Fred Archer's memories are vividly recreated in this heart warming selection of tales from Fred Archer's childhood.  In this wonderful collection of tales from the countryside the reader is once again introduced to a vibrant array of characters from Fred Archer's childhood. The reader is introduced to characters such as Auntie Phoebe, renowned for  the pop she sold in a pint and a half bottle during the haymaking season and Tom Wheatcroft and Job Barley.  Anyone who enjoyed reading Under the Parish Lantern is sure to enjoy The Distant Scene.

The distant scene;

ARCHER, Fred

Hodder&Stoughton

Under the Parish Lantern

Under the Parish Lantern offers an interesting insight into rural life in Worcestershire. In the original foreword Bernard Miles claimed that Fred Archer '...doesn't pretend to be a writer but just a farmer, putting things down in the plainest and most unadorned English, digging into his memory and hauling up great spadesful of practical matter about the village people of his youth...' Here then is an interesting collection of characters from Fred Archer's youth, from John Clopton the cobbler to Maud Handy the farmer's wife who always held a stall at the village fete. This charming collection of memories glows with a magical warmth which revives the England of the First World War and just after. Under the Parish Lantern takes the reader back in time to the days of home farming, horse ploughing and hand milking.

Under the parish lantern

History

Europe

Hawthorn hedge country

Illustrated month by month account of country life in 1900

The secrets of Bredon Hill: a country chronicle of the year 1900

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

A lad of Evesham Vale

Literature & Fiction

Hodder and Stoughton

Coronet

LAD OF EVESHAM VALE (CORONET BOOKS)

Contemporary

Golden sheaves, black horses

Describes life in a small English village during World War II when evacuees sought refuge from the destruction wrought on the towns and the Land Girls were entertaining the troops. (Biography).

When village bells were silent

Military

In William Archer's day, corn was reaped in August by hook and by crook - just one stage in the unending cycle of tying and stooking, gleaning and stone-clearing, harrowing and replanting. But there was time too for William to become shin-kicking champion at the Bredon Games, and for a travelling Russian and his dancing bear to give some pig thieves a fright in the night. Fred Archer remembers all these tales from his grandfather, farming during the long reign of Queen Victoria.  With the warmth and humour for which he is highly regarded, Fred Archer brings us the true voice from the livelier English peasantry in the Vale of Evesham.

By hook and by crook

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

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